(July 26, 2016 at 9:11 am)Rhythm Wrote: I think that you'll have a hard time getting everyone to agree that the universe consists of particles, and particles alone. I would also caution aganst a line of reasoning that states that since particles do not have a will, things made out of a particles cannot have a will. Or that if a thing made of particles has a will, that means that individual particles have a will. Both sides of that statement are uninformative..one being a fallacy of composition, the other a fallacy of division.
A particle may not be able to type this message to you. Obviously, a thing made out of particles can. That a thing made out of particles can type this message to you, does not imply that any single particle can.
Well since particles is all we have discovered, it must be, as I said, be something we haven't discovered yet.
You might be right here, although I don't think that something that only moves when a force is apllied to it suddenly moves on it's own just because there are more of it.
Also it is true that one particle cannot write this message but more together can, however that doesn't mean they have chosen themselves to do so.
whatever floats your goat
